I shied away from Marisa Silver's new novel because of its book jacket: a reproduction of Dorothea Lange's iconic Depression-era photograph called "Migrant Mother." You know it: the woman's strong ...

The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public dedication memorializing the photo will take place Nov. 15 at Jim Miller Park in ...

Hardship and despair poured from the photograph. A woman, her face burdened and beset by worry, stares off into the distance. On either side of her, children bury their faces into her shoulder.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US instated relocation camps for all Americans of Japanese descent. Photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the government to document the camps, but her ...

Migration is global these days. In this country, it echoes the desolation of the 1930s Depression, and the Dust Bowl, when thousands of Americans left home to look for work somewhere ... anywhere. In ...

The most famous photo ever created in San Luis Obispo County is “Migrant Mother.” The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public ...